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.<r ? "*-vC'CA'V; * &?.. "... .' , *.gr -4? . ^ - * , * ? 'l i?ere is a strange depression in the villi animal market just now. Lions, tigers, panthers and other cheerful creatures can be bought very cheap, and museum managers have taken advantage of the fall of the market. "The dear old story that comes every winter is again afloat/' remarks a cynical city paper. "There is to be a scarcity in the ice crop. After the passage of a brief pericd the customary report of the peach crop will also be current. Age cannot wither nor custom stale ine infinite regularity of these time-honored traditions." The Canadian -winter sport of tobogganing has taken root in New Jersey, a toboggan slide having been built by a newly-formed club at Orange. The toboggans, or sleds, freighted with "fair women and brave men," go fizzing down the long and icy slide with lightning-like rapidity, and the sport is so exhilarating that it promises to extend to many other Northern localities in time. The extent to which the Chinaman is despised in California may be judged from the fact that the San Francisco Chronicle, speaking of the removal of some Chianmen from certain buildings there, says the removal will result in forcing the property owners to erect new buildings on their lots, "as no one will be able to rent one of the places which has been used as a Chinese wash-house." According to General Morin, the eminent expert, the proper temperature in well-ventilated places is as follows: Nurseries, asylums and schools, sixty-nine degrees; workshops, barracks and prisons, fifty-nine; hospitals, sixty-one to sixty-four; theatres and lecture-rooms, sixty-six to sixty-nine. In dwellings in this country it has been the custom to keep the temperature at sixty-five to seventy degrees. i r ' "When Archbishop Farrar got back from America to old St. Margaret's under the shadow of Westminster adbey, he took a part in a strange ceremony. After the sermon a basket was brought out containing nineteen loaves of bread and nineteen old people recieved a loaf and sixpence each. The loaves were done up in new handkerchiefs. The quaint custom has been carried on at St. Margaret's for over three hundred years. f The largest single stone ever shipped by any railroad in this country was lately loaded on a car at the Erie railroad in Jersey City. The stone is for a monument | in Buffalo, is fourteen feet in diameter, weights fifteen tons, and cost $5,000. The car was prepared especially for the stone, two of the centre sills were cut of and braced, and this stone swung down through the floor. The height of the stone when loaded was fifteen feet from the track. The following prophecy concerning the destruction of the world was made by Nostradamus, the celebrated French iL ' astrologer, who died in 1566: "Quand George Dieu crucifiera, Que Marc le re* suscitera, Et que Saint Jean le portera; La fin du monde arrivera." "Which means that the world will come to an end when the feast of St. George falls on Good Friday, the feast of St. Mark on Easter and Corpus Christi day on St. John's day. Such is the case this year. The advent of oleomargarine and other noxious compounds is not without its compensation to the progressive and painstaking dairyman. Hundreds of intelligent and well-posted consumers .will seek their supply of choice, fresh, aromatic direct from the dairyman who have established reputations, rather than to take the chances of being swindled by the manufacturers of the counterfeit article in the open market. City dealers of honor and rcputaaion report an increased demand for gilt-edged dairies of butter, even at prices considerably above lio nvprnorp nf crnnd butter. This affords i o o encouragement for the dairyman to make an unexceptionable article of butter and to seek private customers for its regular sale. Mr. Henry Harries, at the recent meeting of the Royal Meteorological society, read a paper in which he proved from official data that the Manila typhoon of September 27, 1882, after crossing the Pacific, traversed America and the Atlantic oceau, finally arriving in the Baltic on November 1. This is the most remarkable tracing from day to day of a storm centre of which we have any record, the distance covered by the typhoon exceeding fourteen thousand geographical miles in the space of thirty-six days. The early meteorologis'ts of this century, some of whom doubted whether a cyclone could live long enough to make the transit of the narrow North Atlantic, would be quite surprised at the result of Mr. Harries' interesting researches. Miss Belle Franklin, a young schoolmistress of McHenry county, is the hero. ine of the Missouri slope. Miss Franklin was sleeping in a shack which she had built upon her claim, when she was awak. ened by the cracking noise of the prairie fire. Looking out she saw the dancing flames skimming along across the prairieThe brave girl knew that her neighbors living half a mile distant were away from home, and the fire would soon envelop the house, barn, hay and grain. Jumping from her bed, she hurried away to the log barn in which the farmer's extra team was tied. Harnessing the animals, she rushed them out to the plow, and before the fire had reached the premises she had turned several furrows and formed a fire-break which saved the property. Marriageable young men in Bismarck are getting ready to throw themsolvea a< Miss Franklin's feet. ~ ; A couple were married by a Los Angeles (California) judge recently, and in gratitude the bride presented him with a mammoth strawberry three inches long, two and seven-eighth inches wide and eight and three-quarter inches in circumference. They do things on a large scale in the glorious climate of California. A. party of Australian savages have I been attracting the attention of several of the learned societies of Europe, and M. Topinard presented three of them?man, woman and child?to the Societe d'An thropologie. It -was louna tnat tncy could count only to the number three; for four they said "many," and for five "a hand." But the man showed mental capacity, for he spoke in both English and German. M. Daily took advantage of this fact to make a delicate inquiry concerning cannibalism, and was informed that he had often eaten human flesh and enjoyed it. A discovery which is expected to revolutionize the art of glass-making is credited Mr. Frederic Siemens. It is in effect that any desired degree of hardness, within a rather wide range, may be communicated to glass, and that by so simple a means as uniform heating followed by uniform cooling. The difficulty of heating and cooling glass at an equal rate throughout is overcome by the application of radient heat and the surrounding of the edges with a material that prevents the heat from leaving them more rapidly than that from other portions. The glass may be made much harder than the ordinary product, and three times as strong. It is adapted to many of the purposes to which iron and steel are applied, and it is not impossible that people now living may inhabit glass houses, with no more fear of throwing stones than if the structures were of brick and mortar. Ben: Perley Poore declares that dairy men can now realize what is called "the glorious uncertainty of the law." The supreme courts in four States have passed upon the constitutionality of the laws enacted by the legislature of those States, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of butterine. The highest judicial authorities in New York and in Minnesota have solemnly declared that it is lawful to concert a vile imitation of butter from fat rendered from the bodies of diseased animals or from any other greasy ' A-??? r,,l> - n/\ni4n buusiance. 111c uiyu. uuxlc wuito u Missouri and Pennsylvania have taken directly opposite ground, and sustain the constitutionality of the State laws prohibiting the manufacture and sale of this unhealthy compound. When newspapers disagree, people can pay their money and take their choice, reading both sides and forming their own opinions. "But these contrary opinions from the bench," says Major Poore, "cloud a grave question with doubt, and can but cause much injury to the dairy interests of the country. If the manufacturers of oleomargarine and butterine find their occupation gone in a State where it has been declared illegal, they can move across the line to another State, and there carry on their traffic. Ways V.a f a infrnrlnnD o rvrn. tau anvajo uv ivuuu iv Aui*vrv*wvw p*. v ? duct into those States where its manufacture is -forbidden, and thus all restrictive legislation is rendered nugatory. It is to be hoped that the question will be carricd up to the supreme court and properly argued there, that it may be settled on some certain basis. The decision of the supreme court of Pennsylvania, upholding the constitutionality of anti-oleomargarine legislation, appears to be sound in law and common sense, and could it be confirmed by the supreme courts of the United States, it would protect the now troubled interests of the dairymen." Advantages of Advertising*. In the development of trade during the past generation or two, says an exchange, advertising has been resorted to and employed as never before, and through its mediumship the business 1 enterprises of the country have been brought into prominence and before the public. The man who best understands this important governing principle of trade; who realizes the necessities of the times and seeks to satisfy them; who systematically and wisely advertises bis business and gives people to understand that he really means business and is thoroughly alive to all that is going on, he, above all others?other things being equal?is the man who makes a financial triumph in life and has his efforts crowned with the laurel wreath of success. The ways of advertising are innumerable, and oftentimes display the greatest ingenuity, and while some are nonsensical, others sensational, and some more effective than others, still they are recognized as the motive power whose force moves the wheels of commercial enterprise. As temporary expedients and cappers of trade some of these methods, n/-v thpir fYhifirt. to a uv vw.wv, -~J certain extent, but the newspaper has long since been acknowledged the only legitimate advertising medium, and tnrough its periodical columns thousands of advertisers speak to millions of readers. Newspapers go everywhere, are read by all classes, at home and abroad, and there is scarcely an individual in the land whose patronage is worth influencing who does not take or read a newspaper, or who may not be directly appealed to by a well-advised advertisement. Our business men, having faith in their own wares, realize that it is the most effective means for securing a wide recognition of the merits of their goods, and the most energetic and successful salesman they can engage. Ceaselessly at work, it addresses thousands each day in the interest of the advertiser, and is a persistent canvasser whose solicitations it is impossible to escape. Overheard. j Unseen he to the pair drew nigh? The maiden was his daughterHe overheard their soft good by, And said. "I've caught a ta ta." They kissed. Then said the piying pa It is no serious matter; j They're lover* and their kisses are, Of course the cream of ta ta." ?Boaton Courier. 1 A ROYAL PAGEtfT. Queen Victoria in Person Opens the British Parliament. Sitting oil the Throne While her Speech is Read. The Britisli parliament is again in session, having been opened by Queen Victoria in person. Promptly at 1:30 p. M., says a London dispatch, the royal party left Buckingham palace for the house of lords. The rout? oi tue rovai pageant had Deen covered witu gravel. This prevented the horses from falling and enabled more rapid progress to be made. Her majesty rode in an open carriage drawn by eight horses. The Household cavalry acted as the escort to the queen. Large crowds lined the street through which the royal procession passed, and hor majesty was greeted with hearty cheers all along the route. The scene in the house of lords was very brilliant. Peers and peeresses, judges, ministers and bishops were present in large numbers in full court dress. Gaslight was used in the chamber, owing to the absence of the sun. This enhanced the beauty of the scene, as it showed more fully tha brilliancy of the jewels and splendor of the dresses worn by those present. The queen looked as if she were suffering from a cold. A cluster of princes was about the throno in the house of lords: princesses were in front I of the wool-sack, and all were standing in silence to receive the queen. The procession entered with Lord Salisbury bearing the sword of state, the Marquis of Winchester the cup, and the Duke of Portland the regalia on a cushion. The Prince of Wales went to meet the queen, and bent to kiss her hand. She ascended the three steps of the throne assisted Dy princess .Beatrice and the Prince of Wales, then seated herself, and her ermine robe and crimson train were arranged by the deputy lord chamberlain. Princess Beatrice took a position at her right, and Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, took one at the left. The lord chancellor stood next to Princess Beatrice, and then came thi Prince of Wales. Lord Salisbury having laid the sword down, the queen bowed three times?in front, to the right and to the left. The house of commons was then formally summoned, and came rushing into the bar headed by the mace and the speaker in his gold-braided robe of state. The members with him were drawn by lot owing to the limited space. The lord chancellor, salaaming to the queen, then held the speach toward her. She touched it as a sign of acceptance, and then he read it with abominably dry elocution. When he had finished it he salaamed again. The queen then rose, assisted by Prince Albert Victor, from the throne, and the procession re-formed and retired. From the beginning everybody save the lord chancellor was a*; solutely mute. The ceremony lasted just a quarter of an hour. The queen said in her speech: My Lords and Gentlemen: My relations with other powers continue to be of a friendlv character. The difference which ex X5lt5i nucii x lasvouiucwoa jvu wu *?j government and Russia on the subject of the boundaries of Afghanistan has been satisfactorily adjusted. In pursuance of a convention which will be laia before you, English and Russian commissioners, with the full concurrence of my ally, the Ameer of Afghanistan, have been engaged in demarcating the frontier of that country. I trust that their work, already far advanced, may tend to secure the continuance of peace m Central Asia. The rising in Eastern Roumelia has given I expression to a desire of the inhabitants for a change in the political arrangements under which thev were placed by the treaty of Berlin. My object in the negotiations which have followed has been to bring them, according to their wish, under the prince of Bulgaria's rule, while maintaining unimpaired the essential rights of the sultan. Under a convention concluded with the porte, commissioners have been appointed on behalf of England and Turkey to confer with the khedive and report upon the measures that are required for securing the defense of Egypt and the stability and efficiency of the i government in that country. Greatly to my regret, I was compelled in November to declare war against King Thee- I baw, of Burmah. Acts of hostility on his I part against my subjects and the interests of my empire has since his accession been deliberate and contin uous. These had necessitated the withdrawal of my representative at his ! court. My demands for redress were | systematically cvaciea ana aisregaraea. ad attempt to confiscate the properly of my sub- ! jects trading under agreement, and a refusal to settle the dispute bv arbitration convinced me that protection of British life and property and the cessation of dangerous anarchy in Upper Burmah could only be effected by force of arms. The gallantry of my European and Indian forces under General Prenaergast rapidly brought the country under my power, and I have decided that the most certain method of insuring peace and order is to be found in the j>ermanent incorporation of the kingdom of Ava with my empire. An agreement has been made with Spain, securing to this country all commercial rights granted to Germany in the Caroline Islands Your ccn sent will be asked to legislative measures rendered neceswiry in the conven on the subject of international copyright, to which I have agreed. Gentlemen of the House of Commons? My Lords and Gentlemen: I regret to tay that no material improvement can be noted in the condition of trade or agriculture. I feel the deepest sympathy for the great number of persons in many avocations of life who are suffering under a pressure which, I trust, wi'l prove transient. ! I have seen with deep sorrow the renewal since I last addressed you of the attempt to excite the people of Ireland to hostility against the legislative union between that country and Great Britain. I am resolutely opposed to any disturbance of that fundamental law. and in resisting: it I arn convinced that I shall be heartily supported by my parliament and my people. The social no less than the material condition of that country engages my anxious attention. Although there has been during the last year no marked increase of serious crime, there is in many place? a concerted resistance to the enforcement of legal obligationst and I regret that the practice of organized intimidation continues to exist. I have caused every exertion to be used for the detection and punishment of these crimes, and no effort will be spared on the part of my government to protect my Irish subjects in the exercise of their legal rights ana in the enjoyment of individual liberty. If, as my information leads me to apprehend, the existing provisions of the law should prove to be inadequate to cope with these growing evils, I shall look with confidence to your willingness to invest my government with all the necessary powers. Bills will be submitted for "transferring to representative councils in the counties of Great Britain local business which is now transacted by the courts of quarter sessions and other authorities. A measure for the reform of county government in Ireland is also in preparation. Thase matters will involve the consideration of the present incidence of local burdens. A bill for facilitating the sale of glebe lauds in a manner adapted to the wants of the rural population will also be submitted to you; as will also bills for removing the difficulties which prevent the easy and cheap transfer of land; for mitigating the distressed condition of the poorer classes in the western Highlands and the islands of Scotland; for the more effectual prevention of accidents in mines; for extending the powers of the Railway Commission in respect to the regulation of rates, and for the codification of the criminal law. In these and in all other matters pertaining to your high functions I earnestly commend you to the keeping and guidance of Almighty God. "Diamond Joe" Reynolds is one of the millionaire curiosities of Chicago. He invariably wears a plain gray suit without an overcoat, a hat several seasons behind, prunella gaiters that have been out of style for years, and always has in his shirt front a first-water diamond as large as a filbert and as bright as a dewdrop. He owns more grain elevators than any man in the country and ships more grain than any two men on the Chicago board of trade. It is probable that Mr. Andrew Carnegie's offer or $250,000 for a public library in PittsImr will be accepted and the terms complied witlj J>y that city. " NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. Beaver Falls, Penn., has had a disastrous fire, the flames consuming the extensive car works, foundry and machine shops located there, together with the Chinese headQuarters and every building except one on tlie square facing Sixth avenue. The total loss is estimated at $175,000. The military guard at General Grant's tomb is to be kept there until the first of next July. Burglars blew open the safe in the county treasurer's office at New Castle, Penn., and carried off $200 in money, $10,000 in notes and ^s.uuu in county warrants. Five members of the Hausmeyer family at Tarentum, Penn., have died of trichinosis. The lives of three other members of the family suffering from the disease were given up. A strike for an advance of wages among the miners and coke burners of the Connellsville (Penn.) region has involved more than 5,000 men, and lias resulted in trouble. A body of 200 Hungarian and Polish strikers compelled a number of men to quit work and did some damage to property. A squad of thirty police was sent out from Pittsburg,and the sheriff called upon the governor for troops. A dispute about wages has resulted in fifteen large New York cigar factories shutting down, thus depriving about 9,000 persons of employment. South and West. Atexemext house at King's Fountain, N. C., caught fire, and three persons?two women and an infant, all colored?were burned to death. Four murderers were hanged on the 15th? Charles Wilson (colored) at St. Louis for the murder of W. A. David, second mate of a steamer on which Wilson was a deck hand; Noah Meniman (colored) at Belleville, III., for wife murder; Henry Stair at Nevada, Mo., for the murder and robbery of Jacob Sewell and bis son, and William Madison (colored) at Beaumont, Texas, for killing another colored man. A unique contest?a type-setting tourna- i ment?has just taken place at Chicago. The | seven contestants set type for three prizes 1 several hours a day during six days. Barnes, of New York, came out ahead with 39,210 ems; McCann, of New York, v&o won the championship recently,was secona with 37,806 ems, and Levy, of Chicago, was third with 33,918 ems. A colored woman alleged to be 125 years old has just died in New Orleans. She was brought to America from Africa in 1788, and was then a grown woman. Dr. Thomas W. Keen, a member of the Virginia legislature, dropped dead of heart disease a few days ago, just after he had finished making a speech in the house of delegates, Richmond. Twenty-four persons have been reported frozen to death in Kansas during the recent cold weather. Many deaths from the same cause have occurred in Nebraska, Colorado and other Western States. A few nights ago Henry Jones, Richard Thomas and Thomas Johnson, residents of Dinwiddie county, Va., attended a country dance, and lust before day started for their homes. They had not gone far before they began to suffer so severely from the cold that they took refuge in a stable, where they were subsequently found frozen to.death. Six men were buried in a snow slide near Ouray, CoL, two being taken out dead and the rest badly injured. Holly Epps, the murderer of Farmer Dobson, was taken from jail at Vincennes, Ind., by a crowd of masked men and hanged. A tank burst at a lard rendering establishment in Creston, Iowa, resulting in the death of two men and injuries to four others. A fire which destroyed the house of Emanuel Johnson in Columbia county, Ark., burned to death six children who were sleeping in one room. William Eldridqe, of Livingston, Tenn.. aged fourteen years, saw his sister abused by her husband and killed the latter with an axe. 1 G. L. Hopkins, a Kentucky farmer of ungovernable temper, charged his nineteen- i year-old son with laziness, and receiving a reply that he did not like took a shotgun and blew the boy's head off. Thk Maryland legislature has re-elected A. 1 P. Gorman to the United States Senate. I Washington. I The consul of the United States at Santiago de Cuba reports the existence of large quantities of bat guano on the south coast of tne island of Cuba. This guano is deposited in caves, one of which was visited dv the consul and estimated to contain from 25,000 to 30,000 tons. The facilities for working these deposits are reported as being excellent. The committee on invalid pensions of the House agreed to report favorably a bill to increase the pensions of widows from $8 to i $12 per montn. The committee on post offices and post roads of the house has been subdivided into ten committees, each having charge of special subjects to be considered. The secretary of the navy has directed that a vessel of the Pacific station be sent to the Samoan islands, recently seized by Germany against the protests of the American and British cousuls. The United States revenue cug er Walcott has captured three thousand pounds of opium in Alaska. President Cleveland has signed the bill providing for the performance of the duties of the President in case of the removal, death or inability both of the President and VicePresident. A commission appointed by Secretary Manning is engaged in making an actual count of the unissued national bank notes in the vaults of the United States treasurv. amounting to about $75,000,000. Ten expert counters from the bureau of engraving and printing have been detailed to assist in the count. Foreign. A train conveying a military company was completely wrecked at Valdivia, Chili. Thirty soldiers, including eleven officers, were killed. M. Saoot, a banker of Calais, France, has suspended; liabilities, $2,000,000.John Magee, who attempted to blackmail the Prince of Wales, has been sentenced to penal servitude for seven years. An Irish high sheriff has written to the London Times that a famine is approaching Ireland, and with it will come acts of lawlessness. Violent men, he says, determined not to starve, will seize the necessaries of life, even at the risk of doing bodily harm to others. A banquet has been given in London in honor of Mr. Joseph Arch, M. P., who is the first agricultural laborer to be elected to parliament There is a split among the liberal leaders in the British parliament on the Irish question. Mr. Chamberlain has threatened Mr. Gladstone that if home rule is proposed he will secede and smash the party. France is suffering from a murder epidemic. The Paris newspapers record eleveu murders and five attempts at murder within B1JL uuj 9. A girl named Collins was recently buried alive at "Woodstock, Canada. The terrible fact was discovered when the body was exhumed for the purpose of removal. General de Courcy, the French com" mander in Annam, has been removed. An enormous haystack at Lemberg, Bavaria, used in cold weather by vagrants as a sheltering place, caught fire during the night while a large number of homeless wanderers were under it asleep, and was destroyed. Twenty dead bodies were found, and it was thought many more had been burned to death. a^ogTplagur Ton Thousand Deaths fYom Disease in "Wisconsin?Scores Dying Daily. The hog plague which has prevailed in -fhe vicinity of Beloit, Wis., this last season and is still causing great loss, is probably the most disastrous disease which has ever affli ited stock iu this vicinity. Scores of hogs are dying every day, and it is estimated that fully 10,000 have died from the plague within a radius of fifteen miles of Beloit. The best authority on the matter does not name the disease to the general satisfaction of stock men, but many are satisfied that the disease is measles and not cholera. ' Over $6,000 worth of feathers have been sold from the twenty-one grown ostriches at the Anaheim ostrich farm, Ix>s Angelos, Cal., during the past seven months. " - ? i ? 1 S--- .' ' ' " 1 LATER NEWS. A fiuk among a cargo of cotton bale3 on Staten Island, N. Y., caused an estimated loss of $100,000. Charles Rolinson (colored) has been sentenced to death at Wilmington, Del., for assaulting Mrs. Gardner. Austin Sheldon, known as tho Pike rniiTit.v fPpnn l hermit. if? dead. He had lived in a cave for more than twenty years. Eleven men have lost their lives in snow slides in Colorado. George Foster, the most notorious burglar, highwayman and bank thief in Ohio, was killed the other night in Cleveland by an officer, after a desperate struggle. He escaped from the Ohio penitentiary last Oct tober, and when found in Cleveland resisted arrest. Somebody has sent to the treasury department $2,500, saying that it was next to the final payment due. Tfie money has been turned in to the "conscience fund." Tiie President on the 20th nominated Charles J. Canda, of New York, to be assistant treasurer of the United States at New York city. Mr. Canda was treasurer of the National Democratic committee during the last presidential canvass. The Senate has confirmed another large batch of presidental nominations. Among them are: Wm. A. Garesche, of Missouri, to be consul at Martinique; Isaac H. Maynard of New York, to be second comptroller of the treasury; Anthony Eickhoff, of New York, to be fifth auditor of the treasury; Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illinois, to be first assistant postmaster general. Collectors of customs?Walter Goddard, at Fairfield, Conn.", B. R. Tate, at New London, Conn.; J. C. Byxbee,at New Haven, Conn- A large number of postmasters were also confirmed. The Belgium chamber of representatives has nassed a bill imposing import duties on ?ereals and cattle. ' William Sheehan, convicted last Decern, ber of the murder of his mother, sister and ] brother at Castletownroche, Ireland, in 1877, was hanged the other day at Cork. ^ A second encounter between police and , strikers in the Pennsylvania coke region re- : suited in the probably . fatal shooting of a j Hungarian and the arrest of several of his 1 companions. , A youno lady named Reser and her escort, James Marshall, were drownel while J skating on the Youghogheny river, near ^ Pittsburg, Penn. I A band of carousing cowboys attempted to ] take possession of the town of Montague, J Texas, The citizens resisted, and four of the , cowboys were killed, the remainder escaping 1 into the Indian Territory. Mrs. Annie Reid (colored) and her two j children, aged re3p32tively eight and six < years, were burned to death at their home 1 in Booneville, Mo. A great storm has been raging on the j Pacific coast, and much damage has been done to property of all kind. * By the collapse 1 of a two-story building in San Francisco two ! women were probably fatally crushed. A Newburgh (W. Va.) dispatch of the < O1of oflud "rtiot a fapriKIa avnliviinn rv>MiiT?1 ' at the Orrell Coal company's coal mines at , this placeat3:2J this afternoon. At least 1 thirty-five persons, and in all probability ten more were killed, many of the dead being j our most respected citizens." Later advices 1 stated that the number of imprisoned men was probably thirty-seven, and the prevail- ^ ing opinion was that all were dead. j On M. de Lesseps1 return from Panama a 1 company will be form 3d in Paris for flooding j the great Sahara desert. , Peter Jepsev, of Petersburg, 111., has t>3eu expelled from Germany by the authorities. Mr. Pendleton, the United S(Mfe min" : ister, protested against the expulsion, but his ] protest was unavailing. ? The subject of Ireland will ba the all-ab- 1 jorbing topic in the present British parlia- , ment. i . ] THE IRISH QUESTION. The British Cabinet Inclined to Adopt Coercive Measures. London dispatches of recent date give the following interesting details relating to the 1 British government's proposed treatment o* 1 r i ii- J 1 1 1 ' i.reiana s ueniauu iur uuiue i luc. It is stated that the government will at the i earliest moment introduce a bill in Parliament making boycotting a felony, enlarging magistrates' powers of summary jurisdiction, and otherwise strengthening the criminal law. The introduction of tnis measure is said to have been decided upon at a cabinet council. The members of the present and last ministries have received letters threatening retaliation with dynamite if the coercion policy in relation to Ireland is adopted, or if home rule v for that country is refused. s A great meeting under the auspices of tbe ^ Loval and Patriotic union has been held at Belfast, Ireland. A rosolution was adopted protesting against the passage by parliament of any measure granting home rule to Ireland. Many delegates from the north of Ireland were present. A resolution was adopted declaring unwavering loyalty to the throne; denouncing separation of Ireland from the union; refusing to recognize an 1 Irish parliament if one should be established; < solemnly protesting against the "pernicious i and immoral practices of the so-called na- * tional league, summoning the government to enforce the laws and suppress disloyalty * and rebellion and protect the lives and li?- ] erties of the peaceable and industrious sub- ( jects of her majesty. The general opinion m regard to the Liberal attitude is that Mr. Gladstone, being un- i nhlp tr> wplrl his nartv toerether on the ques- ] tion of home rule for Ireiand, will repudiate his alleged utterances on that subject at the first decent chance. Mr. Gladstone has had a long and earnest conference with Lords Granville and Hartington, who were respectively the secretaries for foreign affaire and for war in his late cabinet. Both of these statesmen are unalterably opposed to a separate parliament for Ireland, and it is reported that they have persuaded Mr. Gladstone to abandon this issue. AN OPIUM SEIZURE. Three Thousand Pounds Captured by Collector Beecher. A Portland (Oregon) dispatch says that after the seizure of opium on the steamer Idaho some time ago, collector Herbert Tvw>ivwl information that ODium was stored on Kaasan bay, Alaska, awaiting shipment to Portland and San Francisco. The collector at once telegraphed to "Washington, asking that the steamer Wolcott be sent in search of it. The orders reached Portland on the 10th, and the revenue cutter left on a cruise, accompanied by Collector Beecher. She arrived Thursday at the bay and anchored. The collector and eight men from the steamer went ashore to the cannery, which was in charge of two men. Fourteen barrels said to contain furs landed on the last trip made by the steamer Idaho were opened and found to contain 3,012pounds of prepared opium, valued at $45,000. The opium was taken aboard the cutter. There is no doubt that this smuggling has been carried on for years. It is evident that some smuggler has exposed the business to the authorities. Collector Beecher's (son of Rev. Henrv Ward Beecher) moieties will be about Europe is just now quite full of American primo donne. The number includes Ella Russell, Maria Durand, Mme. Rolla, otherwise Mrs. Rammelsberg, of Cincinnati, Theresa Adams, Marie Van Zandt, Ada Arthurs, Miss Tiflft and Miss Spaeder, both of Brooklyn, Miss Johnstone, of Washinton, Mrs. Ewen Cameron, formerly Miss Wheelock.of Boston,and a host of others, little and big. STBHBS AID POLliA Fatal Riot in the Pennsylvania Coke Region. Women Armed with Knives Fighting for their Husbands. A Pittsburg (Penn.) dispatch of the 20th says: A fatal battle occurred between the Hungarian mob and a posse of deputies and special officers at the Morewood mines, near Mt. Pleasant, to-night. One Hungarian is known to have been killed and three or four wounded The Hungarians this afternoon marched from Bessemer armed with clubs, pistols and hatchets. They were accompanied by women armed with knives and stones. As they approached the Morewood company's store they encountered about fifty deputy sheriffs and uniformed policemen. The latter were drawn up along the edge of a big ice pond. The Hungarians pressed closely together and marched slowly across the pond, bearing an American flag and yelling a Hungarian war cry. Sheriff Stewart with an interpreter stepped forward and told the mob that he had a warrant for the arrest of some of them. He ordered his posse to take them. The officers surrounded the strikers, who at once made a fierce attack. The policemen used their clubs with terrible effect until somebody began firing. Then the battle began in earnest. The women screamed and ran and the men fought like savages, till the superior skill of the sheriff's men forced them to run. They hurried across the lowland and ud the hill to their houses, from the windows of which they began a fusillade with revolvers and rocks. Part of the mob, which was 300 strong,retreated up the hill and surrounded their leader, Steve Stannez, a Hungarian of giant size. Here they began a fierce fire on the officers, who returned it and forced them to retreat. One officer, McRoberts, was surrounded by the mob and terribly beaten. He clubbed his way out, and in getting over the hill fell and hurt himself badly, breaking a leg. Thirteen of the strikers were captured, handcuffed and placed in a special car, ana taken to Greens burg jail. The prisoners are all Hungarians. One of the attacking party, named Jabalski. was killed. As the Hungarians scattered to their houses it is not Known how many of them al"e wounded, though blood tracks show that some of the officers1 bullets did not miss the mark. The hills around the Morewood works were covered with spectators during the battle, which occurred just before dusk. When the Eight was at its height, Father Lambing, of Bcottdale, appeared and tried to make peace, but was not successful. He had to content himself with soothing the fright3ned women and children. The Hungarian women fought beside their husbands and brothers, and when driven to their fmm fKa Hnnra onH unn^AXFC UUUOCO WU^UV UVU1 M?V VkVV/4 U It M.V.W v. None of the sheriffs posse was injured seriDusly. A consultation was held between the operators and the sheriff, and it was decided bo raid the strikers at the Standard works bo-morrow. The hills are filled with enraged Hungarians to-night, and further bloodshed is feared. The Hungarians have been arming themselves for several day, and growing more and more demonstrative. They are clamorous for an advance in wages. The wages now paid are twenty-seven cents per wagon for iigging coal and fifty-five to sixty cents per [>ven for drawing coke. The demand is thirty cents per wagon and sixty to sixty-five cents yer oven. The wagons are supposed to bold thirty-three and a half bushels.* Thirty-six hundred of the 10.000 coke ovens ire shut down. This morning about 300 strikers again left Morewood ana marched to bhe Alice mines, where they found men at work. They caught some of them, stuck their heads in the hot oven doors, removing them only after they had promised not to go to work again. They then marched to Mayfield Mines. They chased the mine boss, J. B. McCabe, from the yard after beating him. They assaulted a boy named Mentxer, ind cut him badly about the head and face. From thence they went to the Rising Sun works, and forced the men thereto join them. About 2 o'clock they reached Scottdale. The man mnrr>fi(vJ Hnwn the street carrvine fence rails, clubs, pick-handles, crowbars, gaspipe, md other weapons. They visited the saloons, md many got drunk. A negro named Stewart fired a shot at the strikers, when they rushed to his house,broke in the doors, and smashed everything in the aouse. The negro barely escaped with his life. At Donnelly works the Hungarians cleared out the yard and beat several of the men. Wherever the strikers have gone in a body tbey have left ruin behind. Smashed oven doors, overturned coal cars, and broken tools show the effect of their rage. This evening another car load of policemen from Pittsburg were sent to Mount Pleasant, where they were sworn in as deputy sheriffs. The members of the Fourteenth and Eighteenth regiments of militia,in Pittsburg, have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to go to the coke regions at short notice. This strike is the most dangerous in the history of the coke industry. The operators hate an entirely different c lass of men to deal with, as the Hungarians are at all times unmanageable. In former strikes this element was not in the field, and the operators had m/ir-a mfflllin-oTit mon tn clonl wit.n A ffflillf? of insecurity prevails, and citizens near the arious threatened districts are arming f li3inolves and otherwise preparing to defend their lomes. AS MPOBTMT MEASUBE. The Presidential Succession Bill Passes Congress. The bill regulating the succession of the presidency has passed the House just as it :ame from the Senate. Several amendments ^ere proposed and rejected, and the bill was ihen passed by 183 yeas to 77 nays. The negitive vote was cast by Republicans, and by tfessrs. Bennett, of North Carolina and 3reen, of New Jersey, Democrats. The following named Republicans voted vith the Democrats in the affirmative: liessrs. Allen, of Massachusetts, Atkinson, 3aker, Browne, of Indiana. Buck, Battervorth, Cutcheon, Ely, Gallinger, Hayden, lerman, Hiestand, Hiscock, Hitt, James, rohnson of New York, Ketcham, La Pol ? r* ir./DU. I ette, Lang, MarkQam, Mcuomas, mumuu, tfegley, Payne, Pettibono, Price, Rockwell, Jcranton, Steele, 8trait, Struble, Swinburne, Jymes, Wade, Wakefield, Warner, of Missouri, and Weaver, of Nebraska. What is known as the Presidential Succesdon bill, and which now awaits the signature >f the President to become a law, is a measlre devised originally by Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, and introduced by him into ;he Senate at the last session of Congress. \fter some del>ate and a few unimportant verbal amcndmeuts it was then passed )y that body, but failed of action n the House. The death of VicePresident Hendricks during the interim left Congress in a frame of mind to guard against he accidents of sudden fate in the matter of ^residential succession, and Mr. Hoar was >arly in the field with nis old measure when Congress assembled in December. After a hort debate and the rejection of several proxjsed amendments it again passed the Senate >n Dec. 18 and went at once to the House. After careful consideration in the judiciary committee of that body it was reported favorably to the House in precisely the shape it lad passed the Senate. As in the Senate, all ittempts at amendment were defeated in the [louse, and after a two days' debate was jverwhelmingly passed. Its object is to proride against all jxwsible gaps or lapses in the ^residential office until such time as Congress ;au mature some jxirfectly sound amendment thp snhioot to the Constitution. The bill provides that when there is a vacancy in the offices of both President and /ice-President the cabinet officers shall succeed to the presidency in the following order: Secretary of state, secretary of the treasury, lecretary of war, attorney-general, post>naster-general, secretary of the navy uid secretary of the interior. The sabinet officer thus acting as Presilent is to hold office until the Usability of the President or Vice-President s removed, or until a new President is olected ? succeed him at the end of the term of the President or Vice-President whom he suc:eeds. The bill also authorizes the acting Pi-esident to call an extra session of Congress vithin twenty days from the time he assumes he duties of his office, should the regular neeting of Congress not occur within that ime. v -?rVii-; SUMMARY _0j\ CONGRESS* Senate Sessions. Nineteenth Day.?Mr. Fry? offered a resolution relating to the fisheries, a preamble to which relates that whereas the President! had recommended Congress to provide for a commission to settle and adjust the fisheries question, and whereas the fisheries question nad been settled for ten years past under the treaty of Washington, at a cost of $5,500,000 in money and a remission of $6,000,000 of duties in that period, and whereas that treaty had resulted in an increase of 500 vessels ana 10,000 seamen to the Canadian fishing fleets, with a corresponding decrease in the fishing fleets of tha united States: therefore be it Resolved, thafr in the opinion of the Senate, a commission clothed with the powers referred to ought not to be provided for by Congress. Mr. Edmunds said, referring to this matter, that the Freety deut exceeded: his constitutional authority in making a treaty without the advice and con* sent of the Senate. After further debate,tha resolution went over, Mr. Conger, giving notice that he would ask tooa heard on it.... .Mr. Voorhees presented ma* morials from citizens of Montana paying that the territory may be admitted as a Statet into the Union, and also introduced a bill providing for such admission. ..Mr. Eustfci o^i\jixo uz JLftYUi vi lUC WUULUUaUUU U1 SiiVW coinage.... The judicial salary bill was passed. Ifc gives all United States district court judges $5,000 a year, and prohibits th?wn from appointing their relatives to office in their courts. Twentieth Day.?A joint resolution was of Pennsylvania a manager of the soldier^ home in place of the late George B. McClellan Mr. Harrison's resolution to admit Mr, Moody, of Dakota, to the floor of the Senatewas laid before that body, when Mr. Vest made a speech in opposition, contending that Dakota was not a State, either in law or in fact. Mr. Harrison defended the resolution, and it was adopted....Mr. Teller spoke in favor of silver coinage. Twenty-first Day.?Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, addressed the Senate on the silver question. He said that there are no parties, so far as he knew, in the Senate or out of it, that propose or that have any wish to demonetize silver. He said that the inevitable result of paying the public debt with silver dollars would be to banish gold and leave us with nothing but silver coinage. He said that the letter of theiaw unquestionably made United States bonds payable in either gold or silver coin, but for many years we had paid both interest and principal of these bands in gold, and this inflexible rule had given the pledge r\t r?iih1ir? faith fhnf. tli?T wnnM fmrpvpf ?m tinue to be so paid until tbeir final extinguishment Mr. Beck said that Mr. Morrill's argument merely showed that silver was good enough for everybody bat the bond' holder, who was the only perton that had in writing agreed to take it. After further debate between Messrs. Morrill, Beck and McPherson the Senate went into executive' session. Twenty-second Day?Mr. Butler intnM duced a bill, as a substitute for the bill noW pending, "to enable the people of Dakota W form a State constitution ana State govern-*' ment" The new bill is an enabling act, and applies to the whole Territory Instead of merely to the southern portion. It was re-* ferrea to the committee on territories...*. Mr. Van Wyck introduced a bill "To prevent the demonetization of silver by certain persons in the United States." & provides that any promissory note, check, draft, bill of exchange, or any contract or agreement requiring the payment of money which stipulates ana requires the payment thereof to be in gold coin alone shall be void and of no effect. The bill providing for the counting of the electorial vote was discussed until adjournment. House Sessions. Nineteenth Day.?The House, by a vote of 183 to 77, passed, without amendment, the Senate bill to provide for the presidential succession. The general debate continued for * several hours ana speeches in . favor of the bill were delivered by Messrs. Dibble, of South Carolina, and Baker, of New York. Several amendments proposed were rejected. A? fVia Anal trrtfa r>rvTrar> vu uuo imai tvw win wj "oo Republicans were recorded in the affirmative ana two Democrats in the negative?Mr. Spriggs, of New York, brought in a resolution providing that one month's extra pay shall be given to each employe of the Houtie who has been dismissed since December 7. The resolution was rejected Twentieth Day.?Mr. Wadsworth, of Kentucky, introdued a resolution which recites that whereas the President upon hit accession to office found the gold, silver and paper dollars of equal value, it "became the duty of the President to use all lawful means in his power to maintain this equality in value of such dollars, and that, in the opinion of this Hguse, ho has hitherto faithfully and properly endeavored to discharge that duty." The speaker pro tem. thought that the resolution properly belonged to the committee on coinage, weights and measures. Mr. Wads worth remarked that k did not refer at all to coinage, but involved the question as to whether or not the President had violated the law.' He therefore moved that it be referred to the committee on the judiciary. Mr. Weaver.of Iowa, moved its reference to the committee on coinage, weights and measures. Agreed to?120 to 59.... Under the call of States 590 bills were introduced. TWENTY-FIRST WAY.?A large nuinoGr OI executive communications were laid before the House by the Speaker, among them a letter from the chief engineers asking for an immediate appropriation of $50,000 for the general work of survey on the Mississippi river. The communications were appropriately referred.... The House proceeded to the consideration of the Senate resolution accepting the statue of President James A. Garfield, presented by the State of Ohio. Speeches eulogizing the high qualities of the distinguished dead were made by Representatives Taylor, McKinley. Geddes ana Butterworth, of Ohio, and Pettibone, of Tennessee. The resolution was adopted Twenty-second Day.?The bill increasing the pensions of widows and dependent relatives of soldiers from $8 to $12 per month / came up. and was opposed by Mr. Bragg, of Wisconsin, for two reasons. His first reason was that the whole system of pension legislation ought to be rearranged and a law enacted to make the system more harmonious and less incongruous. His next objection was that the bill applied to all widows. It should, in his opinion, extend only to those cases where the woman was married to the man when he received the disability, and not to young girls who married an old soldier, took care of him for the last two or three years of his life, and then went on the rolls as his widow. In the midst of the debate the morning hour expired, and the House went into committee on the whole The Senate bill lor toe purchase of the old New York produce exchange was amended and passed. The amount appropriated for the purchase is $450,000. Mr. Symes, of Colorado, spoke in favor of silver coinage. Twenty-Third Day.?The House resumed in the morning hour the consideration of the bill to increase the pensions of soldiers' widows, and Mr.Wolford started off by speaking in its favor. Mr. Reagan, of Texas, took the * ground that only soldiers who had been disabled in the war or widows who had been wives of soldiers at the time the disability had occurred should receive pensions. He criticized the manner in which special pension bills were passed, and said that the contest was not so much one about doing justice to soldiers as it wne a contest for political supremacy?a bid for the votes of the soldiers. Mr. Funsten, of Kansas, wanted to know what right Mr. Reagan had to impugn the motives of members, and a warm debate of a personal character followed. Without taking action on the bill the House adjourned. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Ohio's public school* cost. $10,003,938 last year. Hothouse strarrberries are selling in New York at f4 per box. The Missouri Cremation society has 400 members, twenty-five of whom are women. New Year's Day four years hence will begin the year 1889 with a total eclipse of th? sun. There are W4 pupils au ine xnaian scnoot at Carlisle, Penn., representing thirty-six tribes. At least four incorporated towns in Colo* rado are at an altitude of over 9,000 feet abov# the sea. A widower and widow, recently married in Niles, Mich., start out with twenty-five children. Mr. Thomas, ex-minister to Sweden, is 1 turning loose in noilhern Maine 10,000 Swedish emigrants. _. ... i